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Ameudineut  No.  1  to  B.  A.  I.  Order  No.  143  (Regulations  of  the  Secretary  of 
Agriculture  Governing  the  Iuspeetiou,  Disinfection,  Certification,  Treatment, 
Haudliug,  aud  Method  and  Maimer  of  Delivery  aud  Shipment  of  Live  Stock 
which  is  the  Subject  of  Interstate  Commerce). 


AMENDING  REGULATION  24,  REGARDING  SHIPMENT  OF  CATTLE  DIPPED 
ONCE  OR  EXPOSED  TO  SCABIES,  AND  REGULATION  33,  REGARDING 
PROPRIETARY  DIPS. 


Effective  on  and  after  September  15,  1907. 


United  States  Department  of  Agriculture, 

Office  of  the  Secretary. 

It  is  ordered  that  Regulations  24  and  33  of  the  regulations  of  the 
Secretar}7  of  Agriculture  governing  the  inspection,  disinfection,  certifica- 
tion, treatment,  handling,  and  method  and  manner  of  delivery  and 
shipment  of  live  stock  which  is  the  subject  of  interstate  commerce, 
dated  March  22,  1907,  and  effective  on  and  after  April  15,  1907  (B.  A.  I. 
Order  No.  143),  be,  and  the  same  are  hereby,  amended  as  follows: 

Regulation  24.  The  first  sentence  of  Regulation  24  is  amended  by 
striking  out  the  words  "or  that  have  been  either  dipped  once  in,  or 
sprayed  once  with,  the  petroleum  or  oil  emulsion." 

Regulation  33.  That  part  of  Regulation  33  specifying  the  points  to 
be  agreed  to  by  the  manufacturer  of  a  proprietary  substance  before  it 
will  be  approved  for  use  in  official  dipping  is  amended  to  read  as 
follows : 

(1)  To  recommend  for  sheep  scab  a  dilution  of  the  product,  so  as  to 
conform  to  the  requirements  of  the  Department  of  Agriculture. 

(2)  To  maintain  said  product  at  a  uniform  composition. 

(3)  To  place  on  packages  of  dips  which  have  been  examined  and 
found  to  conform  to  the  requirements  of  the  Department  the  following 
statement : 

"A  sample  of  this  product  has  been  submitted  to  the  United  States 
Department  of  Agriculture  for  examination.  We  guarantee  the  contents 
of  this  package  to  be  of  the  same  composition  as  the  sample  submitted 
to  the  Department,  and  that  when  diluted  according  to  the  directions 


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printed  thereon  for  the  treatment  of  sheep  scab  it  will  give  a  dipping 

fluid  of  the  composition  required  of  a  *  dip  by  the  regulations 

of  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture  governing  sheep  scab.'1 

(4)  To  have  on  containers  or  advertising  matter  no  reference  to  the 
United  States  Government  or  any  of  its  Departments  except  as  provided 
in  the  preceding  paragraph,  unless  such  reference  has  been  submitted 
to  and  approved  by  the  Department  of  Agriculture,  and  to  have  on  con- 
tainers or  advertising  matter  no  false  or  misleading  statement. 

Done  at  Washington  this  twenty-third  day  of 
August,  1907. 

Witness  my  hand  and  the  seal  of  the   Depart- 
ment of  Agriculture. 

Willis  L.  Moore, 
Acting  Secretary  of  Agriculture. 


1  There  should  be  inserted  here  the  name  of  the  class  of  dips  to  which  the 
product  belongs,  such  as  "  cresol "  or  "lime  and  sulphur,"  etc. 


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